"Simplify the US tax code, so that it does not manipulate the market by rewarding/penalizing different industries"
You're under the delusion that any system can't be gamed, all tax systems are gamed by corporations and lobbyists - just who do you think is electing your president and writing your laws? Until Americans start becoming well informed and involved seriously in understanding how the relationships between business and government works you will all forever be lost.
... that copyright laws are fucked up and piracy is the necessary response. The fact that he's trying to submit and "be moral" to a bankrupt system of laws is the first problem. There is no ethical quandary here. Software licensing for unlimited time due to copyright has has always been a scam it prevents old software from being modified/studied/updated as well as preserving older applications. Companies would like to just sit on/throw away or control works for eternity.
The fact is you already live in a tyranny when you need "permission" to do things with things you already own or that should have legitimately become public domain after all these years. I'm not a believer in eternal rights for corporations and 'business people' that's our fundamental problem of this age - everyones sucking corporate capitalist dick and needs to get their heads read.
Did we not learn anything from DRM and stallman's prescient "Right to read"?
The next time you are thinking of "doing the right thing" by submitting to laws made by lobbyists and corporations and their supporters just remember this video about the secret (at the time) trillion dollar give-aways by the fed reserve to the banks and other corporations who had huge investments:
... the article is a lie. Especially if you've been following PC games and the games industry (console and PC) in general when it comes to developers and publishers.
Let's take a look at what happened to First person shooter games after Halo 1 (with regen shields) duke nukem forever was just released not too long ago and what do we find? A game chained to halo style 2 weapon + regen shield... I mean it's 2010 and many gamers are just saying "WTF happened to games?". Developers jumped way too hard on the 'accessibility' bandwagon when they saw how much money Zynga was making and they all of a sudden got scared of games with lots of stuff to do in them. They threw out you being in direct control and made the computer do more and more stuff so all you had to do at some point was navigate (FF12 and most MMO's).
Problem is bad things happened over the last 10 years -- Casual First person shooters came to dominate followed by World of warcraft MMO feeding frenzy most developers went on when they saw the mad cash WoW was raking in and caused good single player RPG's to on the PC to pretty much vanish for almost a decade outside of a couple low budget games and RPG's that aren't really RPG's (fallout 3, Mass effect). Not to mention the rise of facebook games that prey upon stupid people like Zygna and get them to waste money on virtual item garbage.
Developers and newbie gamers like to pat themselves on the back but lets be serious for a moment. There has been a significant decline in game quality over all as development costs and team sizes have grown since most of the resources go towards the graphics part of the game so the content or actual gameplay inside the game (things to do) isn't as fleshed out. Many game companies cannot create great games with lots of content at modern budget sizes. There was a sweet spot in the mid 90's to early 2000's that we passed in terms of how much content developers could pack into their games (Diablo 1+2, and starcraft being among the pinnacle of the era).
Truth is most developers have lost the passion of what it means to be a gamer you can see how EPIC failed with Unreal 3 after the amazing UT2004, they took a giant step into console land where gaming tastes are largely worse then on PC.
Then there is the tools, lack of maps and features that are just broken or unfinished. Supreme commander 2 had modding disabled at the request of publisher to push "DLC". I mean it's a real time strategy game FFS you need mods to keep a game like that alive over the long term. Just so many stupid boneheaded things are done all the time in the industry and devs and publishers are often oblivious.
You should probably review videocards giving your insight, most tech sights (even anand) still just runs canned FPS games. Maybe you can even make a little $ from doing articles.
"Except that poor people don't do that as much now."
But this has nothing to do with capitalism the scientific advances in marx's day cannot be compared to modern day. This is why I hate ideological discussions. Most people confuse what is the 'cause' and 'the effect'. Science and technology are why human beings live better not the system, you can go back 200 years and still have capitalism but the science and technology are the defining elements of what is possible.
.. didn't go far enough. Why don't these companies actually try to develop full featured file management tool. I think there is a lot of cool apps that individual users could use if only a big company would throw its money behind it.
1) Automatically sorting and tagging files 2) Automatically finding valid duplicate files (i.e. by valid, not system files or important files) 3) Keeping track of software and software like it/w suggestions of other software you might try/like, etc.
... the best security programmed in software can and will be breached by other means. This emphasis on security IMHO is misplaced, if you want something secure you don't hook it up to the outside world.
You'd have a point if the game industry WASN'T built on the boxed product model where you actually own the game, now they industry is trying to reneg on the deal. In other words we're watching a steady slide towards dictatorship. When games have their functionality removed/enclosed/reduced in value that is clearly not an "amoral" thing to be doing to your customers in which there is a history of boxed fully functioning games that aren't butchered. The game industries bitching and whining over used game sales is bad enough.
... not amoral since the money you spend is gone and the game company still owns the game. All that money you invest is meaningless the second the one of the higher ups in the game company decides to shut-down the game or it goes out of business. This is the problem with game companies who try to sell 'games as a service'.
This also happens with games that are locked down to a service like Xbox live or their own service (steam sdk multiplayer lockdown some games have - see: supreme commander 2) and certain console games that ran their own server/master server (See: Burnout 3 for Playstation2) which later shut down their servers so you are SOL.
This is what I really hate about the game industry's move to try to enclose their games behind the rather dickish language of "games as as a service" and "microtransations". In the end it's just a neo-feudal model of extracting money from people without giving anything real back in return.
"People who are really intelligent know to evaluate based on content, not form."
The real issue is that people don't take the real world into account. Most people who complain about style/spelling/missing words/grammar don't have any background in neurology and the mind. Once you learn about the mind and how much we are not aware of you learn to take a step back when being quick to judge others.
Many errors in grammar/spelling can't be helped because they happen on an unconscious level. You should all watch the following: http://bit.ly/dYaWUc
Copyright is the new enclosure of the commons. The digital commons is being enclosed by corporate/government powers because it is a threat to the status quo.
"They accept this, why the hell don't they tackle the real problem then instead of sueing everybody"
Businesses have no business running a good business! Truth be told it's about control the rather not 'compete' they rather try to find a way to create a walled garden to keep their control. We're seeing the beginning of this in videogames where many games are becoming free2play mmo's and are DRM'd with steam or an always online connection.
" Even completely free mods for other games, if they impinged on the intellectual property of another company have been taken down through the typical use of cease and desist letters."
And this is exactly what is wrong with copyright and software never entering the public domain. The original Mario is over 20 years old if anything this clearly an example where IP laws are interfering with the publics ability to remix and build upon old stuff (which they bought). The whole idea that customers never own anything or get a share of ownership when we buy stuff has to go.
We can't fix old games and have to hold out for great people like John Carmack (Doom, Quake) or the guys at Volition inc (descent, Freespace) to release sourcecode to their games.
"Jesus, you'd think there was an earthquake or something recently."
I really don't think you get why slashdotters fear certain technologies, they are justifiably worried about trends to locked-down computing. We've seen the emergence of free 2 play MMO's and steam trying to take away peoples ability to own and modify their software. Since the great masses of the people do not care about these things they have the potential to make geeks life miserable. The same way an ignorant public can lead a nation towards dictatorship and kleptocracy because nobody is smart enough, concerned enough not to enable these evil corporate practices.
Slashdotters know the history of corporations and their insane quest for power, they are justifiably worried. One only has to look at DRM, the legal battles involving books, digital rights, etc, etc to know that whenever people try to free information and bring it back into the commons the corporate pigs try to lock it down with artificial scarcity and passing bullshit laws.
"* \ instead of the standard / - leave it to Microsoft when faced with picking a sane choice and and a mind boggling idiotic one..."
Blame nerds for having no business savvy to make THEIR FAVORITE OS the defacto standard not others who saw the business opportunity the nerds didn't.
"* Can't boot to a standard desktop from any Windows OS media"
Yes you can Norton Ghost does this, it is possible you just haven't looked into how to do it.
"* No application bundles"
What?? Most people buy their PC's from PC vendors and most vendors include pre-installed apps anyway, why would this matter at all?
"* The Registry - LOL. Why lose just the settings for a single application when you can lose everything! Thanks Microsoft!" The registry has problems no doubt about it but all the settings for many things are in one place. Would you rather have 100's of seperate config files?
All of your complaints are questionable to say the least, and lets not forget linux's damn near lack of usability by normal human beings for so long. Nerds often forget that they have no sense to of designing things for OTHER PEOPLE to use.
This is why people like steve jobs are rich and why many nerds never made it in business.
The great irony is that the opposite is true, you are scum. You and those like you are what make dictatorships possible, you are so invested in the idea of pro-corporate power you'll get on their knee's and suck their dicks as you perpetually rent software for eternity buy expensive $15 dollar map packs, buy games who shut down modding and come with no map editor because you are so deficient in IQ and intelligence and never grew up during the PC gaming of the 90's where all of those things were provided, often for free to the better of the community and the game as a whole. Take a look at quake or UT communities and their respective mods such as thins like Rocket Arena and the like whole entire mods that became games came out of those open games and communties and worthless anti-intellectual shit-stains on humanity like yourself like to complain about "us whiners". Us whiners are the next generation of game developers of games you so fucking love so shut up and let us whine.
Most gamers are low IQ and people who whine about "whiners" without providing justification other then "I'm tough low brow gamer thumps chest" just goes to show why most people post as AC rather then by their real username : They have no real argument.
The people who believe it literally know their religion better then those who do not.
1 Corinthians 15:14 - "and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain."
The bible clearly states if there was no adam, there was no disobedience, no disobedience no sin, no sin, no need for christ to redeem humanity, the whole of christianity vanishes once you mythologize genesis.
Romans 5:12 -"Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed onto all men, for all have sinned."
So despite what the pope thinks, the religion he represents is meaningless. The whole bible is centered around sin, disobedience and death. You mythologize adam and eve you take away the foundation of christianity - because there is no sin and no death, therefore christ is superfluous.
You are correct.. the people who believe it literally know their religion better then those who do not.
1 Corinthians 15:14 - "and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain."
The bible clearly states if there was no adam, there was no disobedience, no disobedience no sin, no sin, no need for christ to redeem humanity, the whole of christianity vanishes once you mythologize genesis.
Romans 5:12 -"Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed onto all men, for all have sinned."
The whole bible is centered around sin, disobedience and death. You mythologize adam and eve you take away the foundation of christianity - because there is no sin and no death, therefore christ is superfluous.
"I didn't think people still believed it LITERALLY, this is news to me."
The people who believe it literally know their religion better then those who do not.
1 Corinthians 15:14 - "and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain."
The bible clearly states if there was no adam, there was no disobedience, no disobedience no sin, no sin, no need for christ to redeem humanity, the whole of christianity vanishes once you mythologize genesis.
Romans 5:12 -"Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed onto all men, for all have sinned."
The whole bible is centered around sin, disobedience and death. You mythologize adam and eve you take away the foundation of christianity - because there is no sin and no death, therefore christ is superfluous.
"It isn't Unions, socialism, or big government that is killing us. It is the short term thinking of Wall Street."
Too bad the vast majority of north americans can't see this. The real issue is that we could use more 'socialism' (i.e. long term thinking/planning) because that just happens to be how nature of problem solving works.
"which almost always involve cutting costs somewhere.. and that's just not the way the fucking world works."
The real issue is that capitalisms desire for profit and the natural physical logistics of solving problems are at odds. If you've lived long enough you'll see this time and time again in business. We can see this especially in the videogame industry as computational power increased team sizes ballooned as the cost of developing art assets and game engines kept going up while market size for various genre's stayed roughly the same outside the mainstream first person shooter genre. The same thing happens to R&D in other industries. The game industry relies on tools which which in turn relies on R&D of many different areas.
The truth is most companies want to wait for someone else to absorb the risk and then profit off someone elses sunk cost, that's how it ususally works in the private sector. Very rarely do big innovations come from private for profit R&D beyond the low hanging fruit.
Slashdot Mirror
... broadband and on and on.
"Simplify the US tax code, so that it does not manipulate the market by rewarding/penalizing different industries"
You're under the delusion that any system can't be gamed, all tax systems are gamed by corporations and lobbyists - just who do you think is electing your president and writing your laws? Until Americans start becoming well informed and involved seriously in understanding how the relationships between business and government works you will all forever be lost.
"I find it quite amusing that the common folk just assumes every corporation has some evil voodoo master accountant,"
Does the financial crisis wring a bell? Maybe, just maybe you missed this...
Video (trillions in secret special give-aways)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJqM2tFOxLQ
http://dailybail.com/
... that copyright laws are fucked up and piracy is the necessary response. The fact that he's trying to submit and "be moral" to a bankrupt system of laws is the first problem. There is no ethical quandary here. Software licensing for unlimited time due to copyright has has always been a scam it prevents old software from being modified/studied/updated as well as preserving older applications. Companies would like to just sit on/throw away or control works for eternity.
The fact is you already live in a tyranny when you need "permission" to do things with things you already own or that should have legitimately become public domain after all these years. I'm not a believer in eternal rights for corporations and 'business people' that's our fundamental problem of this age - everyones sucking corporate capitalist dick and needs to get their heads read.
Did we not learn anything from DRM and stallman's prescient "Right to read"?
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
The next time you are thinking of "doing the right thing" by submitting to laws made by lobbyists and corporations and their supporters just remember this video about the secret (at the time) trillion dollar give-aways by the fed reserve to the banks and other corporations who had huge investments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJqM2tFOxLQ
These people don't give a shit about anyone but themselves they are greedy bastards.
... the article is a lie. Especially if you've been following PC games and the games industry (console and PC) in general when it comes to developers and publishers.
Let's take a look at what happened to First person shooter games after Halo 1 (with regen shields) duke nukem forever was just released not too long ago and what do we find? A game chained to halo style 2 weapon + regen shield... I mean it's 2010 and many gamers are just saying "WTF happened to games?". Developers jumped way too hard on the 'accessibility' bandwagon when they saw how much money Zynga was making and they all of a sudden got scared of games with lots of stuff to do in them. They threw out you being in direct control and made the computer do more and more stuff so all you had to do at some point was navigate (FF12 and most MMO's).
Problem is bad things happened over the last 10 years -- Casual First person shooters came to dominate followed by World of warcraft MMO feeding frenzy most developers went on when they saw the mad cash WoW was raking in and caused good single player RPG's to on the PC to pretty much vanish for almost a decade outside of a couple low budget games and RPG's that aren't really RPG's (fallout 3, Mass effect). Not to mention the rise of facebook games that prey upon stupid people like Zygna and get them to waste money on virtual item garbage.
Developers and newbie gamers like to pat themselves on the back but lets be serious for a moment. There has been a significant decline in game quality over all as development costs and team sizes have grown since most of the resources go towards the graphics part of the game so the content or actual gameplay inside the game (things to do) isn't as fleshed out. Many game companies cannot create great games with lots of content at modern budget sizes. There was a sweet spot in the mid 90's to early 2000's that we passed in terms of how much content developers could pack into their games (Diablo 1+2, and starcraft being among the pinnacle of the era).
Truth is most developers have lost the passion of what it means to be a gamer you can see how EPIC failed with Unreal 3 after the amazing UT2004, they took a giant step into console land where gaming tastes are largely worse then on PC.
Then there is the tools, lack of maps and features that are just broken or unfinished. Supreme commander 2 had modding disabled at the request of publisher to push "DLC". I mean it's a real time strategy game FFS you need mods to keep a game like that alive over the long term. Just so many stupid boneheaded things are done all the time in the industry and devs and publishers are often oblivious.
You should probably review videocards giving your insight, most tech sights (even anand) still just runs canned FPS games. Maybe you can even make a little $ from doing articles.
"Bleeding edge is fine for hobbyists, but grown ups? We need a version that's going to start solid and get steadily better."
And people wonder why people still use windows XP today. It's good enough.
"Except that poor people don't do that as much now."
But this has nothing to do with capitalism the scientific advances in marx's day cannot be compared to modern day. This is why I hate ideological discussions. Most people confuse what is the 'cause' and 'the effect'. Science and technology are why human beings live better not the system, you can go back 200 years and still have capitalism but the science and technology are the defining elements of what is possible.
.. didn't go far enough. Why don't these companies actually try to develop full featured file management tool. I think there is a lot of cool apps that individual users could use if only a big company would throw its money behind it.
1) Automatically sorting and tagging files /w suggestions of other software you might try/like, etc.
2) Automatically finding valid duplicate files (i.e. by valid, not system files or important files)
3) Keeping track of software and software like it
There's tonnes of stuff they could have done.
... the best security programmed in software can and will be breached by other means. This emphasis on security IMHO is misplaced, if you want something secure you don't hook it up to the outside world.
You'd have a point if the game industry WASN'T built on the boxed product model where you actually own the game, now they industry is trying to reneg on the deal. In other words we're watching a steady slide towards dictatorship. When games have their functionality removed/enclosed/reduced in value that is clearly not an "amoral" thing to be doing to your customers in which there is a history of boxed fully functioning games that aren't butchered. The game industries bitching and whining over used game sales is bad enough.
See below:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20022957-17.html
... not amoral since the money you spend is gone and the game company still owns the game. All that money you invest is meaningless the second the one of the higher ups in the game company decides to shut-down the game or it goes out of business. This is the problem with game companies who try to sell 'games as a service'.
This also happens with games that are locked down to a service like Xbox live or their own service (steam sdk multiplayer lockdown some games have - see: supreme commander 2) and certain console games that ran their own server/master server (See: Burnout 3 for Playstation2) which later shut down their servers so you are SOL.
This is what I really hate about the game industry's move to try to enclose their games behind the rather dickish language of "games as as a service" and "microtransations". In the end it's just a neo-feudal model of extracting money from people without giving anything real back in return.
"People who are really intelligent know to evaluate based on content, not form."
The real issue is that people don't take the real world into account. Most people who complain about style/spelling/missing words/grammar don't have any background in neurology and the mind. Once you learn about the mind and how much we are not aware of you learn to take a step back when being quick to judge others.
Many errors in grammar/spelling can't be helped because they happen on an unconscious level. You should all watch the following: http://bit.ly/dYaWUc
Copyright is the new enclosure of the commons. The digital commons is being enclosed by corporate/government powers because it is a threat to the status quo.
"They accept this, why the hell don't they tackle the real problem then instead of sueing everybody"
Businesses have no business running a good business! Truth be told it's about control the rather not 'compete' they rather try to find a way to create a walled garden to keep their control. We're seeing the beginning of this in videogames where many games are becoming free2play mmo's and are DRM'd with steam or an always online connection.
" Even completely free mods for other games, if they impinged on the intellectual property of another company have been taken down through the typical use of cease and desist letters."
And this is exactly what is wrong with copyright and software never entering the public domain. The original Mario is over 20 years old if anything this clearly an example where IP laws are interfering with the publics ability to remix and build upon old stuff (which they bought). The whole idea that customers never own anything or get a share of ownership when we buy stuff has to go.
We can't fix old games and have to hold out for great people like John Carmack (Doom, Quake) or the guys at Volition inc (descent, Freespace) to release sourcecode to their games.
It's because terraria is tedious and the user interface/world blocks are poorly rationed.
"Jesus, you'd think there was an earthquake or something recently."
I really don't think you get why slashdotters fear certain technologies, they are justifiably worried about trends to locked-down computing. We've seen the emergence of free 2 play MMO's and steam trying to take away peoples ability to own and modify their software. Since the great masses of the people do not care about these things they have the potential to make geeks life miserable. The same way an ignorant public can lead a nation towards dictatorship and kleptocracy because nobody is smart enough, concerned enough not to enable these evil corporate practices.
Slashdotters know the history of corporations and their insane quest for power, they are justifiably worried. One only has to look at DRM, the legal battles involving books, digital rights, etc, etc to know that whenever people try to free information and bring it back into the commons the corporate pigs try to lock it down with artificial scarcity and passing bullshit laws.
"* Drive letters - WTF???"
So what? What is so wrong with drive letters?
"* \ instead of the standard / - leave it to Microsoft when faced with picking a sane choice and and a mind boggling idiotic one..."
Blame nerds for having no business savvy to make THEIR FAVORITE OS the defacto standard not others who saw the business opportunity the nerds didn't.
"* Can't boot to a standard desktop from any Windows OS media"
Yes you can Norton Ghost does this, it is possible you just haven't looked into how to do it.
"* No application bundles"
What?? Most people buy their PC's from PC vendors and most vendors include pre-installed apps anyway, why would this matter at all?
"* The Registry - LOL. Why lose just the settings for a single application when you can lose everything! Thanks Microsoft!"
The registry has problems no doubt about it but all the settings for many things are in one place. Would you rather have 100's of seperate config files?
All of your complaints are questionable to say the least, and lets not forget linux's damn near lack of usability by normal human beings for so long. Nerds often forget that they have no sense to of designing things for OTHER PEOPLE to use.
This is why people like steve jobs are rich and why many nerds never made it in business.
The great irony is that the opposite is true, you are scum. You and those like you are what make dictatorships possible, you are so invested in the idea of pro-corporate power you'll get on their knee's and suck their dicks as you perpetually rent software for eternity buy expensive $15 dollar map packs, buy games who shut down modding and come with no map editor because you are so deficient in IQ and intelligence and never grew up during the PC gaming of the 90's where all of those things were provided, often for free to the better of the community and the game as a whole. Take a look at quake or UT communities and their respective mods such as thins like Rocket Arena and the like whole entire mods that became games came out of those open games and communties and worthless anti-intellectual shit-stains on humanity like yourself like to complain about "us whiners". Us whiners are the next generation of game developers of games you so fucking love so shut up and let us whine.
Most gamers are low IQ and people who whine about "whiners" without providing justification other then "I'm tough low brow gamer thumps chest" just goes to show why most people post as AC rather then by their real username : They have no real argument.
The people who believe it literally know their religion better then those who do not.
1 Corinthians 15:14 - "and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain."
The bible clearly states if there was no adam, there was no disobedience, no disobedience no sin, no sin, no need for christ to redeem humanity, the whole of christianity vanishes once you mythologize genesis.
Romans 5:12 -"Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed onto all men, for all have sinned."
So despite what the pope thinks, the religion he represents is meaningless. The whole bible is centered around sin, disobedience and death. You mythologize adam and eve you take away the foundation of christianity - because there is no sin and no death, therefore christ is superfluous.
You are correct.. the people who believe it literally know their religion better then those who do not.
1 Corinthians 15:14 - "and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain."
The bible clearly states if there was no adam, there was no disobedience, no disobedience no sin, no sin, no need for christ to redeem humanity, the whole of christianity vanishes once you mythologize genesis.
Romans 5:12 -"Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed onto all men, for all have sinned."
The whole bible is centered around sin, disobedience and death. You mythologize adam and eve you take away the foundation of christianity - because there is no sin and no death, therefore christ is superfluous.
"I didn't think people still believed it LITERALLY, this is news to me."
The people who believe it literally know their religion better then those who do not.
1 Corinthians 15:14 - "and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain."
The bible clearly states if there was no adam, there was no disobedience, no disobedience no sin, no sin, no need for christ to redeem humanity, the whole of christianity vanishes once you mythologize genesis.
Romans 5:12 -"Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed onto all men, for all have sinned."
The whole bible is centered around sin, disobedience and death. You mythologize adam and eve you take away the foundation of christianity - because there is no sin and no death, therefore christ is superfluous.
"It isn't Unions, socialism, or big government that is killing us. It is the short term thinking of Wall Street."
Too bad the vast majority of north americans can't see this. The real issue is that we could use more 'socialism' (i.e. long term thinking/planning) because that just happens to be how nature of problem solving works.
"which almost always involve cutting costs somewhere.. and that's just not the way the fucking world works."
The real issue is that capitalisms desire for profit and the natural physical logistics of solving problems are at odds. If you've lived long enough you'll see this time and time again in business. We can see this especially in the videogame industry as computational power increased team sizes ballooned as the cost of developing art assets and game engines kept going up while market size for various genre's stayed roughly the same outside the mainstream first person shooter genre. The same thing happens to R&D in other industries. The game industry relies on tools which which in turn relies on R&D of many different areas.
The truth is most companies want to wait for someone else to absorb the risk and then profit off someone elses sunk cost, that's how it ususally works in the private sector. Very rarely do big innovations come from private for profit R&D beyond the low hanging fruit.